From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 11 10:03:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C029816A403 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:03:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from parrot.aev.net (parrot.aev.net [212.31.247.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811A613C455 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:03:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (adsl-ull-161-214.51-151.net24.it [151.51.214.161]) (authenticated bits=128) by parrot.aev.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0BABxaG082501 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:12:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from [10.1.2.18] (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0BA5AEl097062; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:05:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Message-ID: <45A60B6E.6010506@netfence.it> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:03:26 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070110) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: howie@thingy.com References: <73387c420701071410p710a3436gdecda61d57643950@mail.gmail.com> <45A55416.4060203@netfence.it> <45A55C93.3020402@thingy.com> <45A56C3B.4070908@chapman.edu> In-Reply-To: <45A56C3B.4070908@chapman.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 212.31.247.179 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:03:52 -0000 Jay Chandler wrote: >>> Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via >>> PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-( >>> Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed >>> this, I'd like to hear about it. >>> >> This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I've just had the nice Hmm, I had problems setting the tmp filesystem up. I'll have a look at the docs you suggested and try again. >>> Please don't get any graphics bloatware in the way. :-) >>> >> Amen. >> >> Really, if you are put off by the installer, then once that has >> completed., the rest of the "management tools" (i.e. vi) are not going >> give you the warm fuzzies either. If you need the graphical management, Really, you might have understood me wrong. I do *NOT* want a graphic installer. And I'm not using any graphic management tool thereafter either. bye & Thanks av.